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UCS Science Idol Winner

By j7uy5 on October 3, 2006.

i-0e2f4d5b99dc8840838fbcb87087f3e0-UCS_download3.gifThe href="http://www.ucsusa.org/">Union of Concerned
Scientists announced the winner of their
Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest:  Dr. href="http://www.evansville.edu/prospects/areasofstudy/history/faculty.asp?print=1&">James
Lachlan MacLeod, Associate Professor of History at the href="http://www.evansville.edu/">University of Evansville.
 According to his webpage,


MacLeod studied history at the University of
Edinburgh, where his doctoral research led to his book, href="http://www.amazon.com/Second-Disruption-Presbyterian-Historical-Monographs/dp/1862320977/sr=1-2/qid=1159935710">The
Second
Disruption: The Free Church in Victorian Scotland and the Origins of
the Free Presbyterian Church. The book deals with
social and religious
issues facing late nineteenth-century Scotland.



Sounds like an interesting guy.  Anyway, here is his winning
entry, below the fold:


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In case you missed the contest, href="http://ucsaction.org/campaign/vote_now_for_science_idol/forward">here
are the finalists.  One entry that did not make it is at href="http://scienceblogs.com/purepedantry/2006/09/ucs_cartoon_contest_on_global.php">Pure
Pedantry.


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